Snooker

With snooker’s famous Class of 1992 still going strong in the table game, in the lead-up to this year’s World Championship we take a look at the oldest players to be crowned global green-baize kings. Modern Era 1 Ray Reardon (aged 45 years & 203 days when victorious in 1978) The Welshman, winner of six […]

The final instalment of this season’s Home Nations series sees the snooker stars head to Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, where they will contest for the Welsh Open title. There was a big upset in last year’s event, with Northern Ireland’s number two Jordan Brown belying his status to defeat six-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan […]

There has been no shortage of drama at this season’s European Masters, with there having already been plenty of high-profile casualties, and there should be many more twists and turns to come as the last-16 stage gets underway on Thursday. Big Names Tumble Out in Milton Keynes Defending champion Mark Selby, world number three Judd […]

The European Masters takes centre stage this week at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, where defending champion Mark Selby will be hoping he can put a disappointing season behind him. The Jester from Leicester defeated Martin Gould 9-8 in the final to scoop this prize when it was last staged in September of 2020 […]

The 2022 Cazoo Players Championship has been well received by snooker supporters all over the world as the top 16 players from the one-year ranking list battle it out for a winner’s cheque of £125,000. There have already been shocks aplenty at the Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton, and four of the top five seeds […]

The second leg of the Cazoo Cup starts on Monday, with the top 16 from snooker’s one-year ranking list travelling to Wolverhampton to contest the Players Championship. Two fairly surprising names top the seeding list for the tournament, with Zhao Xintong and Luca Brecel arriving as the players to beat after their breakthrough performances in […]

The sharp-shooting Snooker Shoot Out moves to Leicester’s Morningside Arena for this year’s renewal and as always there promises to be plenty of thrills and spills. There are 128 players battling it out for the trophy after the tournament was upgraded to a ranking event in 2017, but with some of snooker’s big-hitters deciding to […]

Seven-time winner Ronnie O’Sullivan is leading the charge of the veterans’ brigade into the Masters’ quarter-finals at Alexandra Palace. Four years after the so-called Class of ’92, snooker’s holy trinity of The Rocket, John Higgins and Mark Williams, last reached the second round of The Masters, the three wise men of the green baize are […]

The Masters is back a Alexandra Palace and we have some high quality snooker to look forward to. The top 16 players in the world rankings, after the UK Championship, have been invited to the event. However, the cut-off came prior to the Scottish Open and World Grand Prix, meaning that Luca Brecel hasn’t qualified, […]

Judd Trump beat his good pal Jack Lisowski to win last year’s World Grand Prix, which was then staged in Milton Keynes, but the draw hasn’t been kind to him in his title defence. 17/5 tournament favourite Trump gets his campaign underway against Ben Woollaston, yet Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Mark Allen, Kyren Wilson, John […]

The 44th UK Championships begins on Tuesday back in York, after a year’s sabbatical in which it was played behind closed doors in Milton Keynes. Neil Robertson took last year’s event, beating Judd Trump 10-9 in the final. A total of 128 players embark on this year’s tournament, looking to secure the first Triple Crown […]

The first two Champion of Champions semi-final spots are now known with Judd Trump and Kyren Wilson set to lock horns in the last four on Friday. Top seed Trump, who still awaits his first win in this big-money event, defeated David Lilley 4-1 in his tournament curtain-raiser before inflicting a 6-0 beating on Welshman […]

The Champion of Champions heads to Bolton for the first time with 16 snooker stars out in force hoping to claim the winner’s share of £150,000. The tournament consists primarily of winners from important events staged in the previous campaign, although the field is then topped up with the highest ranked players in the world. […]

There’s been plenty of drama on the opening two days of British Open action. John Higgins rattled in a superb 147-maximum break in a 3-2 win over Alexander Ursenbacher to delight the Leicester fans. Judd Trump just about held on to his world number one ranking, when beating Mitchell Mann 3-2 in the opening round […]

The British Open gets underway on Monday as the snooker season starts to take shape. It is the second-ranking event of the 2021-22 campaign, following on from last week’s Championship League Leicester’s Morningside Arena will be the host venue, with the tournament taking place for the first time since 2004. John Higgins was the last […]

Mark Selby produced the run of frames when it mattered to put daylight between himself and Shaun Murphy – leaving punters asking whether The Magician has got any tricks up his sleeve to be able to mount a famous Crucible comeback. Murphy’s Semi-Final Fireworks Can Give Him Hope Selby’s four-frame burst on Sunday night has […]

Kyren Wilson took a giant stride towards reaching the final of the World Snooker Championship as he built up an impressive 6-2 lead over Shaun Murphy in the first session of their semi-final at The Crucible. Mark Selby, the three-time world champ, had been the favourite going into the semis and still was, even after […]